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Doula Training
My goal for 2010 was to complete doula training. This goal is under way, because of a suggestion from a lovely midwife I know who suggested toLabor, a doula training organization, previously known as...
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Birth Changed Me
Sydney’s friend’s mother asked me the other day how I came to this profession. No one had ever asked me that, and I guess I’d never really told anyone. The truth is, if someone had asked me what I...
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Production of Products
Yesterday, I ran across a small post by Peaceful Parenting about a one piece outfit that was being manufactured by Old Navy. Needless to say, as a mother who nursed her baby, and was told her baby was...
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New Mamas
I had the joy of going to Target today with Sydney, since I knew the Halloween costumes would be discounted. We got everything we needed, then headed for the check out lines. As we approached, I...
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Birth and Death
Recently, I’ve encountered some very real, natural life occurrences. And as I have encountered them, I have realized the similarities between birth and death, and realized there are huge, vast...
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End of a Chapter
In May of 2009, I went to complete my HypnoBirthing workshop to learn how to teach HypnoBirthing classes. I convened with incredible women who were all there for the same reason, to help expectant...
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A L A S K A ! ! !
Snowflake the Moose We made a huge move from North Carolina to Alaska and let me just say this, we LOVE it! No longer do I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb because of the things I believe about...
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Why the Name Change?
My Gentle Birthing was an excellent journey in my life where I educated, supported, and helped families prepare for their births through childbirth education classes and my work as a doula. This...
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Holy Baby Preparation Batman!
I’m not sure how it was for you when you were pregnant for the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc) time, but this pregnancy is so completely different from Sydney’s. Both started out much the same,...
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My Birth Story
Jeremy, Sydney, and I went to Anchorage to pick up Papa and Nenaw (my parents) on August 11, 2012, which was our estimated due date for Baby August. We joked that it would be really awesome if we went...
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